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From: andy@warmcat.com (Andy Green)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: SPI, DMA and an i.MX31
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:10:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB8DAB8.801@warmcat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87077C4F48609F4392621D9F99DDE20901202E03@tesla.star.galaxy.io>

On 09/22/09 14:22, Somebody in the thread at some point said:

Hi Rene -

> After changing that my system booted smoothly. If I look in '/proc' there
> is a dir called 'sdma', and inside there is a file 'channels':
> $ cat channels
> Channel 0: MCU
>
> It seams to be alive :-)
>
>> Take a look at ./drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c
>
> Next will try to test the mmc driver, but I don't have an MMC/SD slot on
> my board. Hopefully there is some sign of an MMC in the channels
> file or so.

Sounds encouraging... if you want to post or send a test patch if it 
gets to that point I'll try to give it a go on a real SD Card.

At the moment event/0 which owns the PIO to the SD card eats most of the 
CPU on a loaded system, this should be pretty revolutionary when it works.

-Andy

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-22 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-17  8:26 SPI, DMA and an i.MX31 Wolf, Rene, HRO-GP
     [not found] ` <BLU105-W229F8F8F533B107510C600BAE10@phx.gbl>
2009-09-21  8:22   ` Wolf, Rene, HRO-GP
2009-09-21 18:04     ` Magnus Lilja
2009-09-22  2:44       ` Tonyliu
2009-09-22  9:00         ` Wolf, Rene, HRO-GP
2009-09-22 12:23           ` Andy Green
2009-09-22 13:22             ` Wolf, Rene, HRO-GP
2009-09-22 14:10               ` Andy Green [this message]
2009-09-22 14:09           ` Magnus Lilja
2009-09-22 16:22             ` Bill Gatliff
2009-09-22 19:45               ` Magnus Lilja
2009-09-24 10:51                 ` Wolf, Rene, HRO-GP
2009-09-25  7:26                   ` Andy Green
2009-10-01 10:42                     ` Wolf, Rene, HRO-GP

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